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Is the Good News presented in the Garden of Eden? Oh yes!
Genesis 2-3 tells us why we need the Good News and makes this news practical. In these 2 chapters we learn that: The Creator God walked with the man and the woman in Eden. All was very good. The couple was attacked by the serpent tempter. Both ate and earned death....
How the mistranslation of Genesis 3:16 affects the understanding of “those” New Testament passages
The Tru316 Insights into God’s words to the woman in Genesis 3:16 demonstrate that God didn’t curse Eve (or Adam) or limit woman in any way. Namely, that: God took action in two ways in Line 1 of Genesis 3:16. That one of God’s two actions involved “sorrowful toil”...
Why 3:16 Matters!
John 3:16 matters of course. And 3:17 too. But the focus in this case is on Genesis 3:16. Genesis 3:16 matters because God gave some bad news and some good news to the woman in Eden but most modern translations make Genesis 3:16 cover over God’s words to the woman....
The Good News of Easter was promised in Eden!
by Bruce C. E. Fleming When Eve realized she had been deceived she followed the serpent tempter’s word no longer. Dramatically she denounced him before God and labeled the serpent tempter for what he was, her deceiver. Later Jesus would call him the Father of Lies. We...
ESV takes first step to “True” the verse
Translations have made two major errors in translating God's words to the woman in Genesis 3:16. They have made it look like God basically cursed the woman with just one bad action in giving her "pain in childbirth." But God didn't curse Eve (or Adam) or limit woman...
The Tru316 Story
The Tru316 Story All across Africa, in thousands of different language groups and cultures, people were coming to Christ in the Great Revivals of the 20th century. More and more gathered together for worship and growth. It was wonderful! In 1900 there were only an...
The bitter fruit of false teaching on Eden
Eden Fruit. Bitter or Better? by Bruce C. E. Fleming We have a problem. Men women and children across the world have a problem. The whole church has a problem! Know what it is? The problem is that the Good News of salvation announced immediately after Satan’s attack...
Are Mike Wingers’ Three “Pillars” Three “Mistakes”?
When Mike Winger advocates three “Pillars” he actually makes three “Mistakes” A reply to Mike Winger’s last episode of his You Tube series on women and men, by Bruce C. E. Fleming In his own words, Mike came up with “three pillars” for his theology on men and women:...
Did God “stab” the woman in the Garden of Eden?
God didn't "stab" Eve! by Bruce C. E. Fleming, DEA Tru316 Foundation, Tru316.com In the story of Lord of the Rings, the hero Frodo is stabbed in a battle by a Ringwraith’s terrible blade. In that story the wound never heals! In the mistranslations of Genesis 3:16 they...
Ten Suggestions for 1 Timothy 2:12
The verses in 1 Timothy 2 are not about an order of creation but about an order of restoration!
Do you believe in God’s Grace and Mercy? Lessons from Eden and Ephesus!
God’s ministry of saving and appointing for service. Examples from Paul, from Eve and from the wayward overseers of Ephesus, by Bruce C. E. Fleming May 29, 2024 Paul said of himself that he was the chief of sinners. But he was also a second-degree sinner in that he...
Is God “for” or “against” women? The answer should be clear!
Many churches are minimizing God’s call to women. They are holding back and harming their sisters and mothers and daughters. Are their actions really based on Scripture? A growing number of churches are not minimizing women. They are teaching that God uses women too,...
Mary’s Easter Song
Mary’s Easter Song! © Bruce C. E. Fleming Easter Sunday 2024 She stayed with him beneath the cross while others jeered and others fled. She went to where they buried him out there among the dead. Then, she came to care for his remains that early Easter morn. The tomb...
1 Timothy 2 is NOT about “a creation order”
WHAT DISTINCTION is Being Made in 1 Timothy 2? A Tru316.com blogpost by Bruce C. E. Fleming In 1 Timothy 2:13 there is NO distinction being made based on any “creation order.” That idea is being pasted over the meaning of Paul’s point in bringing up Adam and Eve. In 1...
A Double Meaning for “Spring Cleaning”
Much of the pollution of the theology on women and men can be traced to the mistranslation of the first Line of 3:16. It has been made to read like God struck woman with pain in the hours of childbirth. The Hebrew text in Line 1 of 3:16 tells us that God took action in Line 1 in two ways. But neither action had to do with pain in childbirth!
Have you noticed these Garden Basics from Genesis 2-3?
by Bruce C. E. Fleming, Tru316 Foundation (Tru316.com) 1:28, 2:25 Creation order. United in image and likeness of God, naked and unashamed 2:18 Human relations. Equal partners - husband and wife. 3:12-13 Attack & responses. Two levels of disobedience – 1st degree...
The “My Three Sins” Section of 1 Timothy 2-3, 1 Timothy 2:8-3:13 – Overseers Corrected and Restored by Jesus the Faithful Word
People are VERY interested in the verses in Section 2. Because word patterns convey meaning as well as word definitions it is absolutely necessary to take into account the prophetic rhetorical template, or the jump, jump, high jump pattern used in 1 Timothy 2:8-3:13.
The JUMP, JUMP, HIGH JUMP Sections in Ephesians 5-6
Ephesians 5:15-6:9 is built out using the “prophetic rhetorical template” also known as the “jump, jump, high jump pattern.”
Missing the Word Patterns Leads to Misunderstanding!
What word patterns have people missed that has led them into promoting hurtful theology? In Genesis 2-3 about the Garden of Eden: 1. People have missed the 7-point chiasm of Genesis 2-3, in which the high point is 2:25 that highlights the two wonderful relationships...
Should we prohibit the prohibition of women from teaching?
When some say “No” to women teaching in church they are seriously in error.
SUPERVERSEs!
by Bruce C. E. Fleming SUPERVERSEs! What comes to mind? Super Man? The comic book from 1938? Super Book? The cartoon series from 1981? Super Fans? The book from 2019? It is time for SUPERVERSEs! What kind of verses? These are the Bible’s super verses on...
